Speaker Name(s): David Cagigal, Erik Phelps
Description: Risk management necessarily involves the CEO, and most often includes lawyers, whether in the company or outside. Increasingly, CEOs and lawyers have become dependent upon the CIO to properly assess and manage various risks. As a result, legal advisors and CIOs need to be able to talk about risk issues intelligently and in a way that focuses on hard questions, especially at at time when many IT budgets are shrinking. How do we balance IT priorities, budgets, and risks? IT-savvy lawyer Erik Phelps, former associate general counsel for Lands' End, now a partner with Michael Best & Friedrich, raises issues and answers questions on how the legal and IT departments can communicate effectively about: * Data privacy and information security * E-discovery * Other compliance issues and standards * Employee issues